“‘Are you saying that a US citizen targeted by the United States in a foreign country has no constitutional rights?’ [the judge] asked Brian Hauck, a deputy assistant attorney general. ‘How broadly are you asserting the right of the United States to target an American citizen? Where is the limit to this?’

“‘Mr. Hauck acknowledged that Americans targeted overseas do have rights, but he said they could not be enforced in courteither before or after the Americans were killed.’”

(Indeed, the Obama administration has previously claimed the power to be judge, jury and executioner[5] in both drone and cyber-attacks. This violates Anglo-Saxon laws which have been on the books in England and America for 800 years[5].)

After Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, journalist Naomi Wolf, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and others sued the government to enjoin the NDAA’s allowance of the indefinite detention of Americans – the judge asked the government attorneys 5 times whether journalists like Hedges could be indefinitely detained simply for interviewing and then writing about bad guys. The government refusedto promise[10] that journalists like Hedges won’t be thrown in a dungeon for the rest of their lives without any right to talk to a judge

[2] “cannot be challenged in a court of law”: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/spygate-snooping-standing/

[3] is nothing but a kangaroo court: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/even-fisa-court-judge-says-its-a-kangaroo-court.html

[4] the courts cannot review the legality of the government’s assassination by drone of Americans: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/us/politics/judge-challenges-white-house-claims-on-authority-in-drone-killings.html

[6] hiding the evidence from the judge: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/did-the-department-of-justice-really-say-that-the-government-would-not-assassinate-americans.html

[7] same agency which spies on all Americans: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/the-same-secret-government-agency-which-spies-on-all-americans-also-decides-who-gets-assassinated-by-drones.html

[8] even the Founding Fathers didn’t have to deal with a government claiming that it could indefinitely detain Americans: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/daniel-ellsberg-obama-bush-cheney-rumsfeld-and-senators-voting-for-indefinite-detention-are-enemies-of-the-constitution.html

[9] even on American soil: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/constitutional-expert-president-obama-says-that-he-can-kill-you-on-his-own-discretion-he-can-jail-you-indefinitely-on-his-own-discretion.html

[12] the NSA is spying on – and blackmailing – top government officials and military officers: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/nsa-whistleblower-nsa-spying-on-and-blackmailing-high-level-government-officials-and-military-officers.html

[21] before even allowing the party to conduct any discovery to prove their claims: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/12/is-america-still-a-nation-of-laws.html

[22] dual justice system … one for ordinary people and then one for people with money and enormous wealth and power: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/america-is-a-failed-state-with-a-dual-justice-system-one-for-ordinary-people-and-then-one-for-people-with-money-and-enormous-wealth-and-power.html

[23] less access to justice than Botswanans : http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/americans-have-less-access-to-justice-than-botswanans-and-are-more-abused-by-police-than-kazakhstanis.html